A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms...
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Parasitism (redirect from Parasitic)
and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration...
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Cuscuta (redirect from Dodder, the Parasitic Plant)
genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now...
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Lamiales (section Parasitic plants)
families Martyniaceae. Parasitic plant species are found in the order Lamiales, belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. These parasitic plants can either be hemi-parasites...
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Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Historically...
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Orobanchaceae (section Non-parasitic)
Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these...
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Striga (redirect from Striga (plant))
Striga, commonly known as witchweed, is a genus of parasitic plants that occur naturally in parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia. It is currently classified...
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Gall (redirect from Plant galls)
ability to colonize plants and produce cytokinins, which influence plant growth. While parasitic gall-inducers are typically harmful to plants, researchers are...
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Rafflesia (category Parasitic plants)
(/rəˈfliːz(i)ə, -ˈfliːʒ(i)ə, ræ-/), or stinking corpse lily, is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers...
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nematodes and parasitic plants. Not included are ectoparasites like insects, mites, vertebrates, or other pests that affect plant health by eating plant tissues...
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Rafflesia arnoldii (redirect from Rotting flesh plant)
arnoldii, the corpse flower, or giant padma, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual...
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Pholisma sonorae (category Parasitic plants)
mushroom-shaped if enough sand blows away to reveal the top of the stem. It is a parasitic plant which attaches to the roots of various desert shrubs such as wild buckwheats...
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Sarcodes (redirect from Snow plant)
sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach...
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Hydnora africana (category Parasitic plants)
Hydnora africana is an achlorophyllous plant in the subfamily Hydnoroideae, native to southern Africa that is parasitic on the roots of members of the family...
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the very minimum. Parasitic plants attach themselves to host plants via a haustoria to the xylem and/or phloem. Many parasitic plants are generalists and...
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Mitrastemon (category Parasitic plants)
Mitrastemon is a genus of two widely disjunct species of parasitic plants. It is the only genus within the family Mitrastemonaceae. Mitrastemon species...
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Conopholis americana (category Plants described in 1767)
corn, is a perennial, non-photosynthesizing (or "achlorophyllous") parasitic plant. It is from the family Orobanchaceae and more recently from the genus...
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Parasitic castration is the strategy, by a parasite, of blocking reproduction by its host, completely or in part, to its own benefit. This is one of six...
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Monotropa uniflora (category Parasitic plants)
Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia...
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Myco-heterotrophy (category Parasitic plants)
upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship. Myco-heterotrophy is considered a kind...
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Mistletoe (category Parasitic plants)
centuries, the term has been broadened to include many other species of parasitic plants with similar habits, found in other parts of the world, that are classified...
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Rafflesia schadenbergiana (category Parasitic plant stubs)
Rafflesia schadenbergiana is a parasitic plant species in the family Rafflesiaceae, endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It has the largest...
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Epiphyte (redirect from Epiphytic plant)
epiphytic cacti Parasitic plant Epilith, an organism that grows in a rock Foliicolous, lichens or bryophytes that grow on leaves of vascular plants Epiphytic...
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large-seeded alfalfa dodder, yellow dodder and prairie dodder, is a parasitic plant which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. It was formerly classified...
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Malaysia and Indonesia. This parasitic plant species is a leafless twined sprawling thin vine that grows over a host plant, including large trees with...
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Mistel (German for "mistletoe", a parasitic plant) was the larger, unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during...
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Strigolactone (category Plant hormones)
promote the germination of parasitic organisms that grow in the host plant's roots, such as Striga lutea and other plants of the genus Striga. Second...
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569-586. Parasitic Plant Connection: Aptandraceae Parasitic Plant Connection: Coulaceae Parasitic Plant Connection: Erythropalaceae Parasitic Plant Connection:...
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flowering plants (including small trees, shrubs, perennial herbs, and epiphytic climbers) which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on...
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Scybalium fungiforme (category Parasitic plants)
Scybalium fungiforme is a species of parasitic plant in the family Balanophoraceae. It is commonly known as Cogumelo-de-caboclo in Brazil, where it is...
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